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- Sunglasses: More Than a Style Statement
- Ebola Epidemic Could Cause Economic Disaster Warns The World Bank
- Hepatitis A
- Horse-meat Fraud - Wake Up Call For Food Industry
- Recommendations for the Care of Midlife Women
- WHO Says Ebola Death Toll Climbs to 2,630 Out of 5,357 Cases
- Number of Websites Rapidly Grow As Records Cross One Billion Mark
- World Health Organization (WHO) Policy on Essential Medicines Leads To Better Medication
- Xenon May Help Erase Traumatic Recollections
- Master Regulator of Cells' Heat Shock Response Discovered
- Game Changer for Improving Understanding of Ebola and Great Apes
- Scientists Use IPS Cells to Show Statin Effects on Diseased Bone and Cartilage
- Protein Variant may Boost Cardiovascular Risk: Study
- Nepal Adopts Jab to Eradicate Polio
- Radiation Treatment, Drug Therapy Combo Less Toxic for Recurrent Head and Neck Cancers
- Role of Artificial Sweeteners and Glucose Intolerance
- US Health System Not Properly Designed to Meet Needs of Patients
- Specialized MRI Technique Helps Physicians Predict Outcomes Following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
- The Impact of Socioeconomic Status and Severe Maternal Morbidity in Australia
- Research Reveals Why Sharks Appear to be Math Genius
- Focus on Socially Disadvantaged Women is Needed to Improve Maternity Care
- Counting Fish Teeth Reveals Regulatory DNA Changes Behind Evolution
- Inner Ear 'hair Cells' are Made at the Right Time, in the Right Place
- Ride Wave of 'Civil Awareness' by Asia Documentary Makers
- Weak Spot of Bacteria Could be Their 'Office Life'
- France Receiving First Ebola Patient
- Finding Kidney Stones is Same With Ultrasounds and CT Scans
- Growth of World Tourism Numbers is Up 4.6 Percent in First Half: UN
- Diabetes Risk Boosted by Sweeteners
- Imaging of Metastatic Cancer With New Non-Invasive Technique
- Melanoma Understanding With Chromosome Buffers
- Ebola Vaccine Trial to be Done on a Healthy Briton
- Ebola Virus Caught by French MSF Volunteer in Liberia
- New Urine Test Could be Alternative to Smear Tests
- New York Declared as Vegan Capital of 2014 by Charity
- Condoms are the Most Sought-After Item at Asian Games
- Viruses Found in Healthy Humans as Well
- Significant Increase Noted in STIs in Australia
- New Microscopy Technique Yields Fresh Data on Muscular Dystrophy
- Here is How Stress Tears Us Apart
- Literacy on Bioethics Matters Here
- 'Artificial Beak' to Collect Water from Fog Developed
- Prostate Cancer Risk Influenced by 23 Newly-Identified Genetic Variants
- Research Reveals How Toddlers Learn Words as They Age
- Schumacher's Medical Bills: 1,00,000 Pounds-a-Week
- Girls in Colombia Plagued by Mystery Illness
- Rising Tobacco Epidemic Spells Trouble in Asia
- Paintings from India Fetch (Dollar) 3.7 Million in New York
| Sunglasses: More Than a Style Statement Posted:  Donning sunglasses has been a fashion statement for many years. For some people sunglasses have always been a part of dressing up for a stylish summer getaway. strong/strong However, ophthalmologists say that they are much more than a fashion accessory. Sunglasses are an important tool in safeguarding the health of your eyes and the surrounding tissue. Just as ultraviolet rays of the sun can harm skin, they can also damage the lens and cornea ... |
| Ebola Epidemic Could Cause Economic Disaster Warns The World Bank Posted:  ... |
| Posted:  Hepatitis A is the most benign of the hepatitis viruses and usually has no long term side effects. Hepatitis A vaccine is available that is 95% effective in preventing the disease. |
| Horse-meat Fraud - Wake Up Call For Food Industry Posted:  An uproar last year over horse meat being passed off as beef has instigated the United Kingdom to form a new crime unit designed to fight food fraud. To help prevent such future fraudulent practices, German scientists have developed a new technique to detect meat adulteration., which they claim shows vast improvement as compared to current methods. This was publish in American Chemical Society ACS' iJournal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry/i. Hans-Ulrich Humpf ... |
| Recommendations for the Care of Midlife Women Posted:  Recommendations for the comprehensive care of midlife women-on everything from hot flashes to heart disease has been published in evidence based research by The North American Menopause Society's (NAMS) journal iMenopause/i. This is the first, comprehensive set of evidence-based recommendations for the care of midlife women freely available to all clinicians who care for women at this stage of life. "Given the significant controversy and new research findings ... |
| WHO Says Ebola Death Toll Climbs to 2,630 Out of 5,357 Cases Posted:  The World Health Organization said the deadliest Ebola epidemic on record has now infected more than 5,000 people in west Africa and killed around half of them. The UN health agency said a total of 5,357 people had been infected across five west African countries, and that 2,630 had died. In the three hardest-hit countries of Guinea, Libera and Sierra Leone, 45 percent of the cases were recorded in the past three weeks, WHO said. Here ... |
| Number of Websites Rapidly Grow As Records Cross One Billion Mark Posted:  The real time online tracker Internet Live Stats has recorded that the total number of websites has shattered beyond one billion and this number is rapidly growing. Tim Berners-Lee, considered the father of the World Wide Web, touted the milestone on Twitter -- one of the most prominent websites in the mushrooming but sometimes murky Internet world. It comes as the agency responsible for managing addresses on the Internet expands choices far beyond ".com" ... |
| World Health Organization (WHO) Policy on Essential Medicines Leads To Better Medication Posted:  Fifty-six low and middle income countries were evaluated on their adherence to World Health Organization's(WHO) essential medicines practices and measures of quality use of medicines. WHO official, Kathleen Holloway and David Henry (University of Toronto, Canada) collated data from 2002-2008 compared the countries' government-reported implementation of 36 essential medicines policies with independent survey results for 10 validated indicators of quality use of medicines (QUM). ... |
| Xenon May Help Erase Traumatic Recollections Posted:  New research suggests that xenon gas has the potential to be used for treatment for post traumatic stress disorder. Humans generally have their own adaptive physiological response to stress called as the 'fight or flight' response. Post traumatic stress disorder or PTSD occurs in some cases when people are exposed to an extreme stress trigger or a very stressful event such as criminal assault, natural disasters, serious accident etc. People living with PTSD ... |
| Master Regulator of Cells' Heat Shock Response Discovered Posted:  Translation elongation factor eEF1A1 protein which orchestrates the entire process of the heat shock response has been discovered by scientists. By doing so, eEF1A1 supports overall protein homeostasis inside the cell, ensuring that it functions properly under various internal and external stress conditions. The researchers suggest that this finding could reveal a promising, new drug target for neurodegenerative diseases and cancer. Researchers say a variety of ... |
| Game Changer for Improving Understanding of Ebola and Great Apes Posted:  A new method to study Ebola virus in wildlife has been developed by a group of international scientists, using the fecal samples from wild great apes to identify populations likely to have been exposed to the virus. The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)-led research, published today in the journal iPLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases/i, describes this method. This represents a new tool for performing large, population-scale field assessments that can potentially ... |
| Scientists Use IPS Cells to Show Statin Effects on Diseased Bone and Cartilage Posted:  Skeletal dysplasia is a group of rare diseases that afflict skeletal growth through abnormalities in cartilage and bone, and its onset hits at the fetal stage and is caused by genetic mutations. A mutation in the gene encoding fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 (FGFR3) has been associated with two types of skeletal dysplasia, thanatophoric dysplasia (TD), a skeletal dysplasia that cause serious respiratory problems at birth and is often lethal, and achondroplasia ... |
| Protein Variant may Boost Cardiovascular Risk: Study Posted:  At UTSouthwestern Medical Center, researchers have found that the most common variant of the circulating protein apolipoprotein E, called apoE3, helps repair the lining of blood vessels. Individuals with another variant, called apoE4, do not get the benefit of this repair, putting them at higher risk for cardiovascular disease. "We believe that we have identified one mechanism by which apoE3 promotes a healthy cardiovascular system and why a genetic ... |
| Nepal Adopts Jab to Eradicate Polio Posted:  To eradicate polio, Nepal launched a drive by supplementing oral vaccines with an injection that experts say will boost children's immunity against the disease. The impoverished Himalayan nation has experienced intermittent success with its oral vaccine-focused campaign, as new cases have turned up every few years, most recently in 2010, when the outbreak was blamed on cross-border transmissions from neighbouring India. Since the oral vaccine contains ... |
| Radiation Treatment, Drug Therapy Combo Less Toxic for Recurrent Head and Neck Cancers Posted:  Patients with a recurrence of head and neck cancer who have previously received radiation treatment can be treated more safely, quickly and with fewer side effects with high doses of targeted radiation known as Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT). Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy should be done in combination with a drug that also carefully targets cancerous tumors. These findings from a UPMC CancerCenter study were presented today at the American Society ... |
| Role of Artificial Sweeteners and Glucose Intolerance Posted:  Artificial sweeteners, promoted as aids to diabetes prevention and weight loss, could actually hasten the development of glucose intolerance and metabolic disease. And they do it in a surprising way: by changing the composition and function of the gut microbiota - the substantial population of bacteria residing in our intestines. These findings, the results of experiments in mice and humans, were published today in emNature/em. Among other things, says Dr. ... |
| US Health System Not Properly Designed to Meet Needs of Patients Posted:  A new report from the Institute of Medicine says that the U.S. health care system is not properly designed to meet the needs of patients nearing the end of life and those of their families, and major changes to the system are necessary. The 21-member committee that wrote the report envisioned an approach to end-of-life care that integrates traditional medical care and social services and that is high-quality, affordable, and sustainable. The committee called ... |
| Specialized MRI Technique Helps Physicians Predict Outcomes Following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Posted:  Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) is a specialized magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique that detects microstructural changes in brain tissue. DTI can help physicians better predict the likelihood for poor clinical outcomes following mild traumatic brain injury compared to conventional imaging techniques such as computed tomography (CT), according to a new study published in iJournal of Neurotrauma/i, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. ... |
| The Impact of Socioeconomic Status and Severe Maternal Morbidity in Australia Posted:  In Australia, the risk of severe maternal morbidity amongst women is increased by lower socioeconomic position, claims a new study published in iBJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology/i. Australians generally enjoy high standards of living; however, existing research has concluded that health disparities exist, in particular between indigenous and non indigenous Australians. This case-control study aimed to explore the independent ... |
| Research Reveals Why Sharks Appear to be Math Genius Posted:  Sharks possibly are more sensible than clever, which might make them appear like they are brilliant mathematicians, reveals a new study. Levy flight, the mathematician-like behavior attributed to sharks and certain other marine predators, animals and organisms, was a seemingly complex form of random walk comprising clusters of short step lengths with longer movements between them, Discovery News reported. Andy Reynolds of Rothamsted Research said that ... |
| Focus on Socially Disadvantaged Women is Needed to Improve Maternity Care Posted: |
| Counting Fish Teeth Reveals Regulatory DNA Changes Behind Evolution Posted:  The roaches of the fish world -sticklebacks, are the ideal animal in which to study the genes that control body shape. They've moved from the ocean into tens of thousands of freshwater streams and lakes around the world, each time changing their skeleton to adapt to the new environment. Breeding studies between marine and freshwater populations of sticklebacks now have turned up one of the genes that controls tooth number, plus evidence that a simple ... |
| Inner Ear 'hair Cells' are Made at the Right Time, in the Right Place Posted:  Two neuroscientists at Johns Hopkins have discovered the "molecular brakes" that time the generation of important cells in the inner ear cochleas of mice. These "hair cells" translate sound waves into electrical signals that are carried to the brain and are interpreted as sounds. If the arrangement of the cells is disordered, hearing is impaired. A summary of the research will be published in emThe Journal of Neuroscience/em on Sept. 16. "The ... |
| Ride Wave of 'Civil Awareness' by Asia Documentary Makers Posted:  A wave of "civil awareness" across Taiwan, Hong Kong and China is inspiring more documentary makers to unearth stories that otherwise would not be told, suggests an award-winning Taiwanese director. "In the past two years, there has been this prevailing value," Kevin Lee Hui-jen told AFP. "This awareness reflects citizens' mistrust in their leaders." Lee said the trend is strongest in Taiwan, where the public is increasingly wary of warming ties with ... |
| Weak Spot of Bacteria Could be Their 'Office Life' Posted:  The deadly bacteria could be drowned in their own paperwork, believe scientists at the University of Leeds. A research team in the University's Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology has identified for the first time how the "paper shredder" that keeps the bacteria iE. coli/i on top of its day job works. Now the group are looking for ways to jam the mechanism and leave iE. coli/i and similar bacteria in filing hell. Dr Kenneth ... |
| France Receiving First Ebola Patient Posted:  As the World Bank warned that the spiraling epidemic of Ebola is threatening economic catastrophe in west Africa, France is preparing to receive its first Ebola patient on Wednesday. Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF, said a female volunteer had contracted the killer virus while on assignment in Liberia. France's health ministry said she "will be repatriated to France in conditions of maximum security in a dedicated air ambulance," ... |
| Finding Kidney Stones is Same With Ultrasounds and CT Scans Posted:  CT scans and ultrasounds are equally effective at finding kidney stones and ultrasounds should be used as a first step to avoid unnecessary radiation exposure, US researchers said Wednesday. The study in the New England Journal of Medicine randomized nearly 3,000 people who went to emergency rooms for suspected kidney stones. Some underwent ultrasound by an ER doctor, others had an ultrasound from a trained specialist or were given a computed tomography ... |
| Growth of World Tourism Numbers is Up 4.6 Percent in First Half: UN Posted:  International tourist numbers grew 4.6 percent, boosted by strong growth in the Americans, Asia and parts of Europe, in the first half of 2014, the World Tourism Organization said Wednesday. The number of international tourists surged to around 517 million between January and June, 22 million more than during the same time last year, the Madrid-based United Nations body said in a statement. "These results show that tourism is consolidating the positive ... |
| Diabetes Risk Boosted by Sweeteners Posted: Artificial sweeteners are promoted as an aid to good health, but may in fact be boosting diabetes risk, said a study Wednesday that urged to rethink the widespread use and endorsement of the sweeteners. Also called non-calorific artificial sweeteners, or NAS, the additives are found in diet sodas, cereals and desserts -- a huge market for people worried about weight gain and sugar intake. Some experts recommend NAS for people with Type 2 diabetes, a ... |
| Imaging of Metastatic Cancer With New Non-Invasive Technique Posted:  An exciting new approach to imaging local and metastatic tumors turns the fictional bioluminescence, nanoparticles and gene manipulation into a reality. In preclinical animal models of metastatic prostate cancer, scientists at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center, VCU Institute of Molecular Medicine and Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions have provided proof-of-principle of a new molecular imaging approach that could revolutionize doctors' ability to see tumors ... |
| Melanoma Understanding With Chromosome Buffers Posted:  The key to better understanding of malignant melanoma could be the buffers that guard against damage to the ends of chromosomes, reveals a new research from the University of Leeds. Malignant melanoma is known to be the deadliest form of skin cancer. The study has uncovered an important new genetic risk factor for melanoma. It is well known that pigmentation and mole count are the strongest indicators of those most at risk of developing melanoma. For ... |
| Ebola Vaccine Trial to be Done on a Healthy Briton Posted:  The first person to receive a new vaccine for the Ebola virus in a trial at the University of Oxford on Wednesday was a healthy British volunteer. The testing began as Britain announced it would increase aid to Sierra Leone to provide 700 treatment beds over the coming months, with military personnel helping their roll out. US President Barack Obama this week urged action against the worst ever epidemic of the disease, warning it was "spiralling out ... |
| Ebola Virus Caught by French MSF Volunteer in Liberia Posted:  The deadly Ebola virus was contracted by a female French volunteer working for Doctors Without Borders (MSF) while on assignment in Liberia, the charity said Wednesday. It marks the first time MSF has announced that a French national has been diagnosed with the disease. The woman was placed in isolation on Tuesday "after she developed a fever", MSF said in a statement. Tests later confirmed she had been contaminated with the tropical virus that has been ... |
| New Urine Test Could be Alternative to Smear Tests Posted:  Smear tests have been the standard mode of screening for human papilloma virus (HPV) but researchers have developed a simple urine test that could emerge as a non-invasive alternative to such screening methods. The test was developed by researchers from Britain and Spain and was led by Neha Pathak of Queen Mary University of London. The researchers analyzed results of 14 studies involving over 1,400 sexually active women and found that compared to smear tests, ... |
| New York Declared as Vegan Capital of 2014 by Charity Posted:  New York was declared as the vegan capital of the world by animal rights charity PETA on Wednesday as Scottish actor Alan Cumming unveiled a replica of the Manhattan skyline carved out of vegetables. Dan Mathews, senior vice president of PETA, said the Big Apple was "2014 most vegan-friendly city" of the year due to a first vegetarian public school, vegan fast-food outlets and increasing offshoots of vegan gourmet restaurants. Mathews said celebrities ... |
| Condoms are the Most Sought-After Item at Asian Games Posted:  Organizers have revealed that athletes are snapping up thousands of free condoms being given out at the Asian Games. "We've been handing out condoms over the past three days but their daily ration of 5,000 runs out quickly every day," Choi Hyeung-Dae, a games organising committee official told AFP. "But this does not mean that athletes have already been engaged in bed-hopping. I think most of them just want to keep them as souvenirs", he said. The ... |
| Viruses Found in Healthy Humans as Well Posted:  A new study published in the journal BioMed Central Biology has found that the same viruses that cause a number of ailments among sick people are also found in healthy people, though they do not suffer from any kind of symptoms associated with the viruses. The researchers conducted their study on a group of 102 healthy young adults between 18 and 40 years of age, analyzing five body parts that could play host to the viruses, nose, skin, mouth, stool and vagina. ... |
| Significant Increase Noted in STIs in Australia Posted:  Researchers from Kirby Institute at the University of New South Wales have found that the number of sexually transmitted infections and blood borne virus infections are near their decade-high numbers in Australia. An annual survey carried out by the researchers found that the number of Syphilis cases in the country was reaching an all-time high and has risen by 34 percent since 2009. Gonorrhea cases almost doubled during that period, rising by 80 percent, while Chlamydia ... |
| New Microscopy Technique Yields Fresh Data on Muscular Dystrophy Posted:  A new microscopy technology that allows scientists to view single molecules in living animals at higher-than-ever resolution has been developed by scientists at USC. Dubbed "Complementation Activated Light Microscopy" (CALM), the new technology allows imaging resolutions that are an order of magnitude finer than conventional optical microscopy, providing new insights into the behavior of biomolecules at the nanometer scale. In a paper published on Sept. ... |
| Here is How Stress Tears Us Apart Posted:  A fundamental synaptic mechanism that explains the relationship between chronic stress and the loss of social skills has been highlighted by researchers from the Brain Mind Institute (BMI) at EPFL. When triggered by stress, an enzyme attacks a synaptic regulatory molecule in the brain. This was revealed by a work published in emNature Communications/em. Carmen Sandi's team went to look for answers in a region of the hippocampus known for its involvement ... |
| Literacy on Bioethics Matters Here Posted:  The ability of people to identify key issues, articulate their values and concerns, deliberate openly and respectfully and to find the most defensible ways forward determines the justice and well-being of our society. This fact is true for situations ranging from accessible and affordable health care to reproductive technologies. But what are the best educational practices to support these societal conversations?The Hastings Center and the Presidential Commission for the Study ... |
| 'Artificial Beak' to Collect Water from Fog Developed Posted:  An "artificial beak" that could allow people to collect water from fog has been developed by researchers. Cheng Luo and his doctoral student, Xin Heng turned to shorebirds with long, thin beaks to solve the water scarcity conditions in parched areas like Saudi Arabia, Western U.S. By opening and closing their beaks, shorebirds drive food-containing liquid drops into their throats. The researchers mimicked this phenomenon by building simple, fog-collecting, ... |
| Prostate Cancer Risk Influenced by 23 Newly-Identified Genetic Variants Posted:  Around 23 new genetic variants that could raise a man's risk for prostate cancer have been identified by scientists. The so-called "meta-analysis," believed to be the largest of its kind, has revealed once hidden mutations among men in a broad array of ethnic groups comprising men of European, African, Japanese and Latino ancestry. The team compared the scanned genome regions of prostate cancer patients with prostate cancer-free men to find the 23 new ... |
| Research Reveals How Toddlers Learn Words as They Age Posted:  The ability of toddlers to learn words increases with age and a limit exists as to how many words they can learn each day, claims a new research. The findings at University of Missouri could help parents enhance their children's vocabularies and assist speech-language professionals in developing and refining interventions to help children with language delays. Researcher Judith Goodman said that they found that babies' abilities to accurately guess the ... |
| Schumacher's Medical Bills: 1,00,000 Pounds-a-Week Posted:  It has emerged that Michael Schumacher's medical bills have soared to 1,00,000 pounds-a-week. Details of the care given to Schumacher were disclosed on Wednesday. He has a team of 15 medics looking after him. The seven-times world champion still needs round-the-clock care from a team of 15 medics at the specially built hospital wing in the grounds of his 35 million pounds Swiss mansion, The Daily Star reported. Schumacher was sent home last ... |
| Girls in Colombia Plagued by Mystery Illness Posted:  Locals in a town in northern Colombia say a vaccine against the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus, or HPV, is to blame for a mystery illness plaguing girls here. First their hands and feet feel cold. Then they go pale and cannot move. Some convulse and fall to the floor. In El Carmen de Bolivar, near the port of Cartagena, dozens of teenagers have experienced similar symptoms. Some have even lost consciousness. "They vaccinated me ... |
| Rising Tobacco Epidemic Spells Trouble in Asia Posted:  Both high- and low-income countries in the Asian continent are belatedly waking up to a growing tobacco-related health epidemic. Researchers say inadequate public awareness of smoking risks, coupled with aggressive tobacco marketing, has left Asian nations with some of the highest smoking rates in the world at a time when sustained anti-smoking campaigns have lowered rates in the US and parts of Europe. Roughly 60 percent of the world's population lives ... |
| Paintings from India Fetch (Dollar) 3.7 Million in New York Posted:  Auction houses have confirmed that paintings by one of India's most important modern artists which went under the hammer in New York fetched over (Dollar) 3.7 million. Three untitled oils on canvas by pioneering Indian abstract artist Vasudeo Santu Gaitonde, who in 1964 based himself in New York, were by Christie's and Bonhams. The Bonhams canvases, signed and dated 1961 and 1963, came from the artist's "non-objective" series, and fetched (Dollar) 1.08 million and (Dollar) 1.68 ... |
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